Mamata to attend 64th Convocation of IIT-Kgp

Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to attend the 64th Convocation of IIT Kharagpur on Friday. The Chief Guest on the occasion will be Ram Nath Kovind, the President of India.

IIT Kharagpur had extended invitation to Banerjee for attending the event and Nabanna sources said that she had accepted the invitation. It is for the first time that Banerjee is going to attend any programme at the premier institution.

Security in the campus has been beefed up, with the President and the Chief Minister attending the event. Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi is also scheduled to be present.

According to IIT sources, the event is scheduled to be held at the Tagore Open Air Theatre of the Institute, where close to 2,400 students will receive degrees from the Director of the Institute Prof. Partha Pratim Chakrabarti.

Students will receive degrees in BTech, BArch, Dual BTech and MTech, MTech for 2 years and 3 years, MSc for 5 years and 3 years, Masters in Medical Science and Technology, Masters in Human Resource Management, MBA and Executive MBA, Postgraduate Diploma in Business Analytics, Bachelors and Masters in Law, MS Research and PhD.

The Institute will also award Distinguished Alumnus Award to selected alumni on the basis of their exemplary contributions to the domains of science and technology, industry, academia and society.

The institute is coming up with the first super-speciality hospital in the IIT system, with the aim to transform it to a medical school with a focus on high-end medical research and medical outreach programmes.

It is also coming up with a Research Park in Kolkata, to promote entrepreneurship and industrial research in Eastern India.